Flat White
Make Sydney and Melbourne city-states
How else are we going to save New South Wales and Victoria?
Between extremes
Reclaiming the middle ground in Australian public policy
Long live the trolls
Renewable energy advocates cannot be cured by logic, facts, or debate
One God, one people
Or endless fragmentation?
The worst-case scenario for the ordinary man in 2026
Charles Dickens opened his timeless novel, set in the era of the French Revolution, with a paradox that echoes through…
Why a Royal Commission will fail
In the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, as victims’ families and Jewish organisations demand assurances from the Australian…
Between 2025 and 1984: A year in review
The country is utterly fed up
The state’s New Year’s wish
When nothing is sacred, everything becomes negotiable
Young Australians should travel instead of going to Woke universities
From Düsseldorf: On hearing that a decade’s worth of university dropouts will be awarded a qualification at a Victorian university,…
When a society stops having children
Australia has one of the lowest fertility rates in its history
Bondi bloodshed
Why Labor must face a Royal Commission
The streets of Iran are calling out the name of Reza Shah II
From the seventh of Dey, the people of Iran once again stood before bullets and batons, chanting the name of…
The Carnivalesque inversion of hierarchies in the debate over shark nets
The debate surrounding the use of shark nets in New South Wales provides a real-world example of a Carnivalesque inversion…
The Bondi massacre: honour, dignity, and the refusal to reform
In a characteristically lucid and incisive essay written in the aftermath of the Bondi massacre, Helen Pluckrose argues in Islam,…
Multiculturalism is an inherently dangerous policy
That such an evil and horrific act can be perpetuated – killing and injury so many innocent, peaceful, and law-abiding…
The four pillars of modern civilisation
When a high-energy society opts for an unreliable, expensive grid
Are guns laws Albanese’s most desperate shot yet?
Those who say Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is trying for a ‘John Howard moment’ by turning the Bondi terrorist attack…
Attacking the pen is not the answer
Why Australia needs a Royal Commission before it legislates on fear
The worst of 2025
2025 is drawing to a close. So, because everyone likes a listicle, let’s now trawl through some of the worst…
Offshore wind is no longer an energy debate
It’s a national security one
Disarmed, divided, dependent
The long betrayal of the Australian people
The Liberal Party that forgot what held it together
I have been quiet for a week and a half. Now it is time to return to battle, a metaphorical…
Well, that didn’t take long!
Substack employs age-verification to the dismay of writers
Cultural frustration and the Age of Influencers
Tate and Chatfield are not building culture; they are selling it
Move the Capital to Alice
I bristle at the term Australian Gothic
